BASED ON A TRUE THREAD: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=35302&page=1

DTG, the OP, was perma banned so I recreated the thread here for all to see the original thread is still pretty classic.

After having watched this overrated but mediocre movie it's hard not to be beaten over the head with all the apparent coincidential similarities to MGS.

Batmans raspy voice, which came out quite forced seemed like a nod to David Hayters Solid Snake as the two characters sounded essentially alike (besides the fact that SS sounds much more natural having done this voice for over a decade)

The thematics and pseudo philosophies of TDK also quite overtly borrowed from MGS. The themes of chaos, control, manipulation, heroes, anarchy, etc were simply too numerous to be considered merely nods to MGS. Much like The Matrix practically ripped off Ghost in the Shell (and did a poor job at that) TDK quite shamefully borrowed almost complete lines from Kojima's games. Some of the lines of being a hero (or not being one), of chaos and control were so similar to dialogue used in MGS that it felt almost distracting while watching the movie.

That TDK made such shallow use of Kojima's deep thematics was ever so aggrivating, not to mention the fact that I had not see the director or writer admit to MGS serving as an obvious influence is what makes this all the more shameful.

Wasnt this a thread like a year ago?

Yeah, I remember a thread like this too. It was a long one too, IIRC. The OP of that thread didn't listen to anyone else's points.

Yeah it was right after The Dark Knight came out. I think they were comparing it to MGS4.

"The themes of chaos, control, manipulation, heroes, anarchy"

They were pretty universal themes a year ago and they still are now.

Great joke thread.

Another year another idiot.

It's in someone's sig actually.

So old.... there was a thread nearly identical to this ages ago, why does this stuff come up again and again

I thought this was a remembrance-thread :D. I mean come on... two people making the same thread on the same issues? Pls, Strategy king was around at the time he must've seen it

I don't see how the matrix copied ghost in a shell.

For some reason i can't get to the page with the opening post but taken from the end of July last year.  Why are we recycling old posts of banned users?

(http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=35302&page=1)

DTG said:

After having watched this overrated but mediocre movie it's hard not to be beaten over the head with all the apparent coincidential similarities to MGS.

Batmans raspy voice, which came out quite forced seemed like a nod to David Hayters Solid Snake as the two characters sounded essentially alike (besides the fact that SS sounds much more natural having done this voice for over a decade)

The thematics and pseudo philosophies of TDK also quite overtly borrowed from MGS. The themes of chaos, control, manipulation, heroes, anarchy, etc were simply too numerous to be considered merely nods to MGS. Much like The Matrix practically ripped off Ghost in the Shell (and did a poor job at that) TDK quite shamefully borrowed almost complete lines from Kojima's games. Some of the lines of being a hero (or not being one), of chaos and control were so similar to dialogue used in MGS that it felt almost distracting while watching the movie.

That TDK made such shallow use of Kojima's deep thematics was ever so aggrivating, not to mention the fact that I had not see the director or writer admit to MGS serving as an obvious influence is what makes this all the more shameful.